Gravity in Space Review

How long does Earth's orbit around the sun take?

• 365 and 1/4 days

• 360 days

• 24 hours

• 2 years

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What causes day and night here on our Earth?

• The different moon phases

• Asteroids

• The rotation of Earth

• Stars

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What causes our seasons here on Earth?

• Stars in our universe

• Our revolution around the moon

• Earth's tilted axis and our rotation

• The revolution of Earth around the sun and Earth's tilted axis

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What are large chunks of rocks and metal in space?

• Earth

• comet

• asteroids

• gibbous

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Where is the Asteroid Belt located in the Solar System?

• near Neptune

• between Mercury and Venus

• between Mars and Jupiter

• around the Sun

This is the phase of the moon when the moon looks like a thin sliver (less than half of the moon's nearside is sunlit).

• crescent

• gibbous

• full

• new

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This is the phase of the moon where NONE of the moon's nearside is sunlit.

• crescent

• gibbous

• full moon

• new moon

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The inner planets are called terrestrial planets because they are composed of

• water
• gas
• frozen surfaces
• rocks

Which planet is tipped on its side nearly 90 degrees?

• Jupiter
• Saturn
• Uranus
• Neptune

Who stated the earth was the center of the solar system?

• Ptolemy
• Copernicus
• Kepler
• Galileo